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WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 2007

8.00 am

Registration Desk open
Conference Office open

Convention Centre

 

Pre-Conference meetings [see website]

 

4.00 pm

Poster Group 1 on display

 

 

4.00 pm

DELEGATES ASSEMBLE in QE2 Square

First session begins
Initiation of Smoking Ceremony

 

QE2 Square

4.15 pm

Smoking Ceremony begins

Welcome to country

QE2 Square

4.40 pm

Didgeredoo and dancers invite delegates to move to the Theatre

 

4.50 pm

MC, Julie McCrossin, introduces herself and welcomes delegates

Theatre

4.52 pm

Welcome to Albury City
Councillor Amanda Duncan-Strelec, Mayor of Albury

 

4.55 pm

Formal Opening and KEYNOTE 1
Her Excellency Marie Bashir, NSW Governor

 

5.10 pm

Keynote Address
Hon Tony Abbott, Federal Minister for Health

 

5.30 pm

Keynote Address
Senator Kate Lundy, Shadow Minister for Local Government, Sport, Recreation and Health Promotion

 

5.50 pm

KEYNOTE 2
Tony McMichael, Professor and Director, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
Climate change, prolonged drought conditions and health: implications for rural Australia

 

 

Images of Albury–Wodonga

 

6.15 pm

Performance—Fruit Bats

 

6.30 pm

MC, Julie McCrossin

 

6.30 pm – 7.30 pm

 

WELCOME RECEPTION—sponsored by the Farm Health and Safety Joint Research Venture, managed by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC)

Sussan Ley, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, will launch RIRDC’s “Effective Use of the Internet—keeping professionals working in rural Australia

Entertainment with Per Westman
Performance
—Jane Rayner (flute) and Peter Lynch (guitar)

 

 

7.30pm

friends of the Alliance meet the students

QE2 Square

 

THURSDAY 8 MARCH 2007

8.00 am

Registration Desk open
Conference Office open
Exhibition open
Poster Group 1 on display

Convention Centre

8.00 am

Workshop for Conference Choir with Jane and James (all welcome)

QE2 Square

 

MC, Julie McCrossin

 

8.20 am

PerformanceVoices of the Murray—Bohdan Krowicky (conductor) and Robyn Krowicky (accompanist)

Theatre

8.35 am

MC, Julie McCrossin: welcomes delegates; housekeeping and handbook. Introduction of Conference Convenor, Sue McAlpin, and NRHA Chairperson, John Wakerman

 

8.40 am

Images—looking back on previous Conferences

 

 

SECTION 1: Lessons from the past

 

8.45 am

KEYNOTE 3
Steve Clark
New agendas and old: an appraisal of previous Conference themes and recommendations

First call on Conference recommendations

Theatre

9.05 am

Audience questions and comments facilitated by MC

 

9.15 am

Plenary performance—Wild Things Band and Wild Choir

 

9.25 am

KEYNOTE 4
Rhonda Galbally, CEO, Our Community
Community cohesion, resilience and health development in regional Australia

 

9.45 am

KEYNOTE 5
John Menadue, Chair, New Matilda
The importance of universal health care

 

10.05 am

Audience questions and comments facilitated by MC

 

10.15 am

MC: preparing for first concurrent session

 

10.25 am

Book LaunchAustralia's Rural, Remote and Indigenous Health: A social justice perspective, Janie Dade Smith

 

10.30 am

MORNING TEA
Exhibition and networking

 

11.15 am –
12.25 pm

Concurrent Session A

 

 

A1          Community resilience
                Chair: Owen Allen, SARRAH      

Theatre

 

11.15       Identifying models of community resilience that enhance psychological wellness: a rural study
Cath Rogers-Clark, Desley Hegney, Helen Ross, Peter Baker, Christine King, Liz Buikstra, Susanne Pearce, Kath McLaughlin, Bronwyn McCullough, Jim Weir, Lynette Pirie

 

 

11.40         The Impacts of the Lost Creek Fire on Community Resiliency
Judith Kulig, Bill Reimer, Ivan Townshend, Dana Edge, Katja Neves-Gracas, Nancy Lightfoot

 

 

12.05           Conflict and contradiction
David Kidd

 

 

A2          ‘Joining Together’ Aboriginal people
                Chair: Romlie Mokak, AIDA

Theatrette

11.15       Is there a blueprint for replicating general practice entities in rural Australia?
Jenny May

 

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11.40       Lurrtjurringa Lan Program—Joining Together
Terry Keating

 

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12.05       Murri first aid: how working in partnership can save lives
Amy Creighton, Garry Creighton

 

 

A3          Food safety; water safety
Chair: Beth Rogers, APA                

St David’s Hall

11.15       Freight and chronic disease in remote Indigenous communitiesthe story of an apple from tree to table
Ian Lovell

 

 

11.40       Q4: Live Outside the Boxraising awareness of obesity in the school environment
Karla Calleja

 

 

12.05       Water Safety in the Bush: a community development initiative providing water safety and awareness instruction to remote farms and stations
Nicole Beattie

 

 

A4          Anecdotes and evidence
                Chair: Pauline Wardle, Frontier Services

The Albury Club

11.15       Refugee resettlement in  regional Australia
Geraldine Duncan

 

11.40       Postcards from the people: a dialogue model for community needs assessment
Peter Orpin

 

 

12.05       Cobram Hospital—the rural advantage
Sonya Moncrieff

 

 

A5          Women’s health—updates from the longitudinal study
                Chair: Jenny May, RDAA              

St Matthew’s Hall

 

11.15       Health care for women with diabetes living in rural areas
Anne Young, Julie Byles, Julia Lowe, Xenia Dolja-Gore

 

 

11.40       Driving myself: main forms of transport among older women in rural and remote Australia
Julie Byles, Richard Gibson, Lynne Parkinson, Annette Dobson

 

 

12.05       Access to health services for mid-aged women in rural Australia: evidence of improvement?
Anne Young, Xenia Dolja-Gore

 

 

A6          Arts-in-health
                Chair: Chris Pidd, Murray Arts

St David’s Chapel

 

11.15       I found my thrill on Pyramid Hill—the Festival for Healthy Living in a rural setting
Harry Gelber, Jenny Mitchell, with Mental Health Ambassadors from Pyramid Hill College and St Patrick’s Primary School
(extended session)

 

 

12.05       How the arts in health care can make a difference in rural and remote regions in Australia
Margret Meagher

 

 

A7          Cancer: Service delivery issues
Co-Chairs: David Goldstein, COSA and John Wakerman, NRHA

Albury Council Chambers

 

11.15       Epidemiology of cancer in Indigenous Australians: implications for service delivery
David Roder

 

 

11.32       Rural disadvantage in cancer care: evidence and outcome in New South Wales
Bruce Armstrong

 

 

11.49       Mapping rural and regional oncology services
Craig Underhill, Rebecca Bartel, David Goldstein, Paul Grogan

 

 

12.06       Training for Indigenous health workers—lessons from a national breast cancer training workshop – ABSTRACT ONLY
Thea Kremser, Jane Francis, Helen Zorbas

 

 

A8          Education for health
                Chair: Liz Drew, ARNM

Legacy House

 

11.15       The RIPENing: advancing rural interprofessional education in Australia
Nick Stone, Tony Smith

 

 

11.40       A Will and a Way—saving millions and lives
Louise Lawler

 

 

12.05       Recruitment and retention of rural nurses and allied health professionals
Stanford Harrison

 

11.15 am –
12.25 pm

A9          Elective workshop [up to 30 people]
Delegates will need to pre-register on-line for this workshop

Managing chronic kidney disease in regional and remote Australia

·         Managing chronic kidney disease across the continuum: is it achievable in regional and remote Australia?
Alan Cass, Jeannie Devitt, Joan Cunningham, Kate Anderson, Cilla Preece, Paul Snelling, Josette Eris, Erica Kneipp, Sarah Brown, Chris Fielding

·         Diabetes and renal disease: the new epidemic
Graham Philp

Card Room, Albury Club

12.25 pm

Session concludes

 

12.30 pm

LUNCH
Exhibition and networking

Note: A special lunch for BMP students will be held at the Quality on Olive.

 

12.55pm

World Premiere—Rural Health Education Foundation documentary film on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (26 minutes)

Theatre

 

1.30 pm

MC, Julie McCrossin

PerformanceChopped Liver
A show about Hepatitis C and the Indigenous community

Theatre

1.45 pm

MC, Julie McCrossin: housekeeping and second call on Conference recommendations

 

1.50 pm

Romlie Mokak, AIDA. Report from the pre-conference workshop on Indigenous health: Equal health within a generation—what rural action?

 

 

SECTION 2: Working across borders for effective services

 

2.00 pm

KEYNOTE 6
Robert Tickner, Secretary General CEO, Australian Red Cross
New directions for Australian Red Cross: An organisation with a history in the bush

Theatre

2.20 pm

Audience questions and comments facilitated by MC

 

2.30 pm

KEYNOTE 7
Philip Davies, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing
Policies and programs across internal borders

 

2.50 pm

Audience questions and comments facilitated by MC

 

3.00 pm

KEYNOTE 8
Kerry Strauch, Manager, Border Cancer Collaboration, Upper Hume Community Health Service and Nicki Melville
Cancer support across borders—the Border Cancer Care Co-ordination Project

 

3.20 pm

Audience questions and comments facilitated by MC

 

3.30pm

MC, Julie McCrossin: housekeeping

 

3.35 pm

Official opening of the Conference Exhibition—Philip Davies

 

3.40 pm

AFTERNOON TEA
Exhibition and networking

 

4.10 pm –
5.45 pm

Concurrent Session B

 

 

B1           Communities in action
                Chair: Michael Jonas, RDN

Session sponsored by the NSW Department of State and Regional Development

Theatre